Mission

Mission Participants: Laura & Christina

Problem: what to do?

Limitations: 2 days only

Action description: Saturday morning. Out of bed too late (naturally). Close to 40 min long trip in a taxi to the other side of Bangkok. Southern Buss Terminal (Sai Tai Mai) and a bus ride direction northwest lasting slightly more than 2 hours. Destination Kanchanaburi with no reservations of any kind. 

We arrived in Kanchanaburi town without knowing where we will stay over the night - that was the adventure part not to plan too much. Right decision. Advertising is rather aggressive here - purchased buss tickets come along with several brochures of guesthouses & hotels, so all you have to do is to 'give in'. The town plus the surrounding area is a serious tourist magnet due to the history of the province (WW2), the nature and many activities to spend time on. Therefore do expect to be swarmed by questions "Where do you want to go?" from numerous taxi, tuk-tuk, scooter-taxi or rickshaw drivers :)

I think this was one of those weekends where Mr. Murphy had finally decided to bugger off (yo, dude! Do me a favor.. keep it that way) - nothing went wrong and we had the magic touch :) The guesthouse we picked was brilliant - cheap and the small room was tidy (with a shower/WC!) and check out the ultimate bonus - a pool! :) The whole place was just lovely to at; also staff spoke rather good English and were very sweet and helpful.